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1924419 pages. Index. Footnotes. Frontis portrait of Adam Weishaupt. "I have felt impelled to devote one more book to the Revolution as a whole by going this time further back into the past and attempting to trace its origins from the first century of the Christian era. For it is only by taking a general survey of the movement that it is possible to understand the causes of any particular phase of its existence. The French Revolution did not arise merely out of conditions or ideas peculiar to the eighteenth century, nor the Bolshevist Revolution out of political and social conditions in Russia on the teaching of Karl Marx. Both these explosions were produced by forces which, making use of popular suffering and discontent, had long been gathering strength for an onslaught not only on Christianity, but on all social and moral order." - Preface. Bookplate upon front free endpaper. Last two leaves of index loose but present. Back free endpaper missing. Front board loosely attached. Tiny bit of writing atop last blank page. Gilt lettering upon backstrip worn but legible. SINGERMAN 161, WEEMS p.71. Book
Best.-Nr. 24133New England Last half of 19th century. As made. Very good; wanting two small decorative insets at the hand where what appear to be filled placement sockets are visible. Wood Elm with 5 onlaid tacked panbone plaques and a fitted coin silver collar appx. 15 mm. long with applied "chain link" design to secure the tip of the pointer. The pointer is appx. 230 mm. long and appx. 23 mm. at its greatest diameter. Rare. An American Torah pointer made in New England - given the whalebone plaque onlays some time in the last half of the 19th century. The plain turned body somewhat eccentric and off-center inset plain "button" and plaque decoration indicates an untrained craftsman but with facility with and access to panbone flat pieces of whalebone from a rear jawbone extension of a sperm whale cut as sections and polished. The five plaques are fitted along the longitudinal axis they each meas. appx. 175 x 10 x 2 mm. secured by small brass tacks that are skillfully applied. unknown books
1912Best.-Nr. 362552Tokyo: Naigai Shuppan Kyokai 1912. First Edition. An early comprehensive survey of the Japanese in North America. Includes chapters on American society; the historical background to immigration to North America; the Japanese communities of California Washington Oregon and other states as well as British Columbia Alaska and Hawaii; the types of employment in which the Japanese are engaged and the income derived therefrom; the monetary remissions to Japan and their relationship to trade between Japan and America; the political and social status of the Japanese; the exclusion movement; and the Japanese government's emigration policy. The 32-page appendices consist of the treaties laws and regulations pertinent to the Japanese in America."—A Buried Past 274. With six leaves of halftone photographs printed two per leaf. Most of the images are reproductions of US photo postcards. An important and very scarce book. 2 10 2 2 26 6 leaves of plates 366 32 16 pages. OCLC: 37260004 Harvard 56042933 University of Hawaii microfilm 672848331 National Diet Library. First edition first printing. A very good copy in the original printed wrappers. Naigai Shuppan Kyokai unknown
1845Best.-Nr. 42820862FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of the Pentateuch translated by a Jew and the first American translation of the Torah. Isaac Leeser was the single most influential Jewish figure in 19th-century America. His many accomplishments include establishing the vernacular sermon as a permanent feature in the American synagogue publishing the first successful American Jewish newspaper and founding the first American rabbinical school. "When Leeser commences his public career the scattered Jewish individuals and the members of the congregation in the United States did not number more than from 12000 to 15000. His purpose to mold these into a community was to be achieved in part by the pulpit and in part by the press. … Leeser participated in all Jewish movements. He was the earliest promoter of all the national enterprises—the first congregational union the first Hebrew day-schools the first Hebrew college the first Jewish publication society—and of numberless local undertakings. The 'Occident' acquired a national and even an international reputation; the Maimonides' College of which he was president paved the way for future Jewish colleges in the United States; and his translation of the Bible became an authorized version for the Jews of America" Jewish Encyclopedia. "Practically every form of Jewish activity which supports American Jewish life today as either established or envisaged by this one man" and "almost every kind of publication which is essential to Jewish survival was written translated or fostered by him" B. W. Korn. Leeser's greatest contribution was his translation of the Bible and these volumes contain the first printing of the first and most important portion of this monumental work Leeser's English translation of the Torah. This translation was not superseded until well into the 20th century. Emphasizing that this is an American work Leeser notes in the introduction that "I have to state that I have not looked at a single work issued by English Jews and that hence I have not borrowed a single idea or suggestion from any one of them living or dead." Five volumes. Hebrew and English text on facing pages. Finely bound in mottled calf spines gilt a.e.g. Title neatly restored several restored perforated and ink stamps. A very handsome set in a splendid binding. C. Sherman, 5605-6 hardcover
